The designer's work gave women the freedom to express themselves - but there was also a dark side which has cast a shadow on her success, as a BBC documentary reveals new secrets
Coco Chanel's dark side - Nazi spying, dangerous affairs, and 'revenge' sackings - Mirror Online
Coco Chanel spent her later years trying to hide her secret espionage activities with the Gestapo during WWII and her virulent anti-Semitic views.. Five years ago, I wrote a blog by the same name. It was back in the days when I purposely limited my blogs to no more than five or six hundred words (my Millennial friends told me this was the “norm”). I’ve re-read some of those blogs and frankly, I’m embarrassed. First, my writing style […]
Coco Chanel: Nazi Collaborator or Spy? - Stew Ross Discovers
That’s quite a statement isn’t it? You may have heard rumblings about this back in August 2011 when author Hal Vaughan released his book Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War. But I don’t think we’ve really heard enough about it. I don’t really think we got a firm grip on the fact that today’s most…
Coco Chanel was Definitely a Nazi
Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms, and had amassed a personal fortune. But…
Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent on Apple Books
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, by Mazzeo, Tilar J
Oh, no! Coco Chanel – was a Nazi spy?
A newly published French historical biography details the dark past of American socialite and secret Nazi collaborator, Florence Gould, (pictured left, far right next to comic and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin)
The life of socialite and Nazi collaborator Florence Gould
My Love Affair with Chanel, Part III
Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis - Kindle edition by Mazzeo, Tilar J.. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ .
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris: Tilar J. Mazzeo: 9798200004607: : Books